Last night my friend Kellie, who is also the mother of Nathan’s best friend, came over and stayed with the kids for FIVE HOURS so that Chris and I could have dinner at Carraba’s (thanks to a very generous gift card given to me by my SIL for Christmas), AND go see the movie “21″.

*Just a tip-if you order a Cosmopolitan at Carraba’s, ask for some extra cranberry juice on the side, because I think the bartender poured Ketel One and Cointreau into the shaker and then just waved it past the juice bottle. It was undrinkable until I confessed to our server that it was too strong and she offered more juice.

*Another suggestion-always tell your server that you have a movie to catch. We were in and out in just over an hour, and that server got a HUGE tip because of her willingness to help us make the movie on time.

*We saw previews for “Made of Honor” with Patrick Dempsey, which looked like a sweet romantic comedy. Also “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan” which stars Adam Sandler and had everyone in the theater cracking up. And “Ironman”, which looks FREAKING SWEET and AWESOME and Robert Downey Jr. is going to blow everyone away with this one.

*”21″ was really good, it followed the book it’s based on (”Bringing Down The House”) fairly closely, and stars Kevin Spacey and Jim Sturgess, an English actor who was in “Across the Universe” and is also in “The Other Boleyn Girl”. Also Kate Bosworth and Lawrence Fishburne.

So Chris and I talked about his upcoming business travels, and my still not being sure about BlogHer, and about my trip to DisneyWorld next month, and it was really nice to just talk to each other with no distractions. We rarely get a chance to even have dinner by ourselves, let alone be out for five hours!

Even after being together for 23 years (yes, really, 23 years) I still like going out on dates with Chris. Which is a very good thing.

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